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Re: Anonymous web servers

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In list.cypherpunks, [email protected] writes about anonymous web
pages:

<snip>
> In some ways the role of the "meeting place" software is similar to an
> IRC server.  In fact, this concept could be thought of as HTTP over
> IRC.
>
> The big question mark is whether the meeting place would be blamed for
> the possibly illicit transactions it facilitates.
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I see a big parallel to the remailers.  Both are simply conduits.
Remailers have already been attacked for the content they've passed.
HTTP meeting places will surely catch the same kind of heat.
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